Famous Quotes & Sayings

Swami Vivekananda

The Vedas teach that the soul is divine, only held in the bondage of matter; perfection will be reached when this bond will burst, and the word they use for it is, therefore, Mukti - freedom, freedom from the bonds of imperfection, freedom from death and misery.

Swami Vivekananda

Perfection is always infinite. We are the Infinite already.You and I, and all beings, are trying to manifest that infinity.

Swami Vivekananda

He who knows even how to prepare a smoke properly, knows also how to meditate. And he who cannot cook well cannot be a perfect sannyasin. Unless cooking is performed with a pure mind and concentration, the food is not palatable.

Tony Robbins

If you are driven by certainty you can't grow. If you are driven by certainty if somebody messes with you, you can get very intense, even violent, depending upon the person's personality.

Tony Robbins

People always try to be perfect. That's why they don't start anything. Perfection is the lowest standard in the world. Because if you're trying to be perfect, you know you can't be. So what you really have is a standard you can never achieve. You want to be outstanding, not perfect.

Tony Robbins

If you are truly flexible and go until... there is really very little you can't accomplish in your lifetime.

Tony Robbins

Find someone worse off than you and help them. It will put your life in perspective.

Tony Robbins

Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Tony Robbins

Persistence overshadows even talent as the most valuable resource shaping the quality of life.

Robert Anthony

The thing you resist is the thing you need to hear the most.

Robert Adams

At our best and most fortunate we make pictures because of what stands before our camera, to honor what is greater and more interesting than we are. We never accomplish this perfectly, though in return we are given something perfect--a sense of inclusion. Our subject thus redefines us, and is part of the biography by which we want to be known.

Rihanna

I may be bad, but I’m perfectly good at it.

Tiger Woods

As you all know, I'm kind of a perfectionist.

Thomas Watson, Jr.

If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.

Steven Wright

The things I talk about and explain couldn't happen - yet, they don't seem impossible - you could say I talk about the world in an abstract perspective. But then, the world is basically insane - and it's trying to pass itself off as being a sane place. I show it for what it is.

Steven Spielberg

Not every movie, in my opinion, should be in 3D. There are a lot of stories I wouldn't shoot in 3D. But, you know, there are movies that are perfect in 3D.

Richard Carlson

Try to maintain the perspective that, in time, everything disintegrates and returns to its initial form.

Robert Brustein

No enlightened person would deny its premise, but as an ongoing program it is monotonous, limited, locked in a perception of victimization.

Tom Kelley

I'm not gonna be perfect, but I'm gonna try stuff.

Tom Holt

American-style iced tea is the perfect drink for a hot

Tom Holt

American-style iced tea is the perfect drink for a hot, sunny day. It's never really caught on in the UK, probably because the last time we had a hot, sunny day was back in 1957.

Tom Hodgkinson

There is nothing so perfect as pinball and a pint at 11 a.m.

Tom Verlaine

I'd never assume an audience was anything but totally receptive and perfect. Seriously, it seems to me that's the only circumstance you can work under. Otherwise, speaking for myself, you may as well be in the advertising business.

Tom T. Hall

After I retired and came off the road, I gathered up all my musical instruments and suddenly, I wanted them all to be perfect.

Tobias Wolff

We are made to persist. that's how we find out who we are.

Tina Weymouth

It's hard to be perfect, It really is. I keep learning things after I've already bungled it.

Tim Finn

I'm a live performer and I love playing live.

Tim Ferriss

Perfection is an impossible destination

Tim Ferriss

The universe doesn't conspire against you, but it doesn't go out of its way to line up the pins either. Conditions are never perfect.

Tim Ferriss

The decent method you follow is better than the perfect method you quit.

Tia Carrere

When I first met my agent, I said, If something comes up and it fits my age range and personality, I would like you to send me up for it, even if it specifies blonde or brunette.

Tibor Kalman

Perspective is a moment in time that cannot be fully appreciated until that moment has passed.

Samuel Adams

Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the sake of the latter. The necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude and perseverance. Let us remember that "if we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom," it is a very serious consideration ... that millions yet unborn may be the miserable sharers of the event.